Who is Simon Stevens and what is the CEO of NHS England’s salary?
SIMON Stevens currently holds the most senior position within the English NHS and has been its chief executive since April 1, 2014.
The former president of the Oxford Union is a close friend of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Who is Simon Stevens?
Stevens was born in August 1966 in Birmingham and went to Balliol College, Oxford.
He is the son of a Baptist minister and a university administrator.
His friends at Balliol College ranged from Extinction Rebellion‘s Rupert Read to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Stevens later went to the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where he received an MBA.
His wife, Maggie, is a public health specialist from New York City.
They have two children, a boy and a girl.
After university Stevens first worked in Guyana.
He worked as a healthcare manager both in the UK and internationally between 1988 and 1997.
He joined the NHS on the service’s graduate management training scheme, which included work experience as a hospital porter.
He progressed from being a general manager for mental health services in North Tyneside and Northumberland and became group manager of Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals in London.
He has acted as policy adviser to both Frank Dobson and Alan Milburn.
Between 2001 and 2004 he was health adviser to Tony Blair.
He was made the chief executive of NHS England in 2014.
What is Simon Stevens’ salary?
He is believed to be paid around £195,000, according to reports.
What did Simon Stevens say in his first coronavirus press briefing?
Stevens said testing would be rolled out to healthcare staff from next week in efforts to protect them from coronavirus.
He announced at the daily Downing Street briefing that staff would start being tested for coronavirus from next week as part of the measures against the outbreak.
He said staff to be tested included critical care nurses, intensive care staff, ambulance workers and GPs.
He appeared alongside Michael Gove who was standing in for Boris Johnson after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Stevens said: “From an NHS perspective, we think it is urgently important that we are able to test frontline workers who are off sick or otherwise isolating.
“That’s why the work that Public Health England has been leading is so important because it means we are going to be able to double this time next week the number of tests we have been doing this week.
“I can say that today we will be rolling out staff testing across the NHS, starting next week with the critical care nurses, other staff in intensive care, emergency departments, ambulance services, GPs.
“As testing volumes continue to increase, we want to widen that to essential public service workers, as well as our social care workers, and continue with patient testing that is so vital.”